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Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: California's Public Counsel partnered with Morrison & Foerster on Tuesday to file a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles claiming the state has failed to uphold its...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jeff Shafer of Alliance Defending Freedom, discusses expression's reliance on context in light of Masterpiece Cakeshop ... Two perpendicular lines: a cross. A church architectural committee asks a sculptor to design one for placement atop the steeple...

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved $51.35 billion in funding on Thursday for state and foreign appropriations , including $10 million to help fund the UN...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an adoption bill into law on Thursday that allows adoption agencies receiving public funding to refuse to place children in adoptive families or foster homes that conflict with the agencies' religious beliefs....

Christina Strickland, represented by Lambda Legal Counsel , filed an appeal on Thursday to the Mississippi Supreme Court to challenge a lower court's ruling that she is not a legal parent of her ex-wife's...

Texas' Republican-controlled Senate gave final approval to a bill that would enable publicly funded foster care and adoption agencies to refuse the placement of children with non-Christian, unmarried or gay prospective parents due to religious objections. The "Freedom to Serve...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill into law on Wednesday that will allow religious adoption agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex couples if such relationships violate the religious beliefs of the organization. Alabama House...

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday entered an order that stripped an Egyptian-born man of his naturalized US citizenship for lying during his naturalization process. The US government had claimed that...

US Federal Judge Robert Hinkle on Thursday ruled that the state of Florida must comply with the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges and permit same-sex partners to have their names added to the death certificates...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of South Carolina ruled Wednesday that the state must place the names of both same-sex parents on their children's birth certificates. Judge Mary Geiger Lewis determined...